1. Guns N’ Roses, “Since I Don’t Have You”
2. Beck, “The New Pollution”
3. Belle & Sebastian, “Dirty Dream Number 2″
One of my all-time favorite B & S tracks, “Dirty Dream Number 2″ might be the world’s greatest non-Donoovan Donovan song (Belle & Sebastian have done a lot of those). Like so much of their oeuvre, this Sixties throwback is both ebullient and heartbreaking.
4. The Flaming Lips, “Mr. Ambulance Driver”
5. Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz, “The Girl from Ipanema”
From its foggy sax bleating to vocals so lovely and sultry they’re worth running away from home for, this is the ultimate lounge song. And I mean that as the highest praise.
6. The Philadelphia Orchestra, “Beethoven Sympony No. 6 (Pastroal), Op. 68 1. Allegro ma non troppo”
7. Bob Dylan & The Band, “Odds and Ends”
8. Frank Black, “Hang on to Your Ego”
Mr. Black sprinkles his inimitable Pixie-dust on a Brian Wilson masterpiece to create a rock song sharp enough to cut glass.
9. Franz Ferdinand, “Outsiders”
10. Django Reinhardt, “Place de Brouckere”
– Chase
August 7th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
My favorite clip of Dirty Dream Number 2 is from Fans Only when Beans gets up to dance and Isobel joins him. It’s so sweet.
And I agree that Next Stop Wonderland does wonderful things for the Getz/Gilberto classics. I assumed that’s what you were referring to when you said, “worth running away from home for.” It’s so true.
Wow….Frank Black kills that song. In a good way. I forgot how kick arse that cover is.
My ipod ran out of juice or else i’d've put up a ten.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
love Hang On as a 90’s club song.
The Girl from Ipanema - just the most famous song of a brilliant catalogue by Mr. Jobim.